Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Here is how the cover looks now- I adjusted the font so it doesn't come on so strong and make the thing look overly "busy"- also you can see how the front and back will look by themselves--- and the whole thing sans type. I wanted to create a whole "Skeleton Crew World" incorporating as many elements from the stories in the book as I could. We see Mrs Todd and her friend riding past the Milkman who is holding The Monkey, with Uncle Otto's Truck coming toward them and Nona hitch-hiking while twisted mice from The Jaunt float in space, the giant monster from The Mist walks by and we see bits and pieces of Gramma, The Raft, and so on.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

It was a great pleasure to produce over 50 pieces of art for the upcoming SKELETON CREW deluxe anniversary edition for the good folks at PS Publications in Meddie Olde Inkland! The book is due out in May of 2015- along ways off and yet... next thing you know... Time goes fast. (Hint, if you want to slow time down go to Comic-Con in San Diego and try to get from one of the main hall to the other. You will experience a distortion in time wherein what should take minutes takes hours- something unnatural is going on there, especially where the Star Wars people congregate!)

But I digress- Here's the mockup cover for the book- hope you like. Can you identify the various elements and link them with the stories in the book?

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Pete

WELCOME TO VONSHOLLYWOOD!

Pete Von Sholly's storyboards for over 100 feature films include Dinotasia, Mars Attacks!, James and the Giant Peach, Darkman, The Mask, The Shawshank Redemption, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV, The Waterdance, The Green Mile, Click, The Mist and more. Pete has written and illustrated four graphic novels: Morbid, Morbid Volume 2 and Extremely Weird Stories, (Dark Horse Comics) and SPINECRAWLER from IDW- plus three satiric magazines for TwoMorrows, Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters (2 issues) and Comic Book Nerd which parodies comics fans and fanzines. Self-published titles from Vonshollywood Press include Sergeanstein, Dinosaur Circus and Here Doesn't Come the Flying F-ck. UPDATE- Pete has a pile of books coming next year (and later this one) from PS Publications including a collection of his gag cartoons, Fabulous Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible, several illustrated versions of classic Lovecraft stories and covers for Jess Nevins’ The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes and also a cover for S.T. Joshi’s novel The Assaults of Chaos from Hippocampus. His epic foldout mural Pete Von Sholly’s History Of Monsters is forthcoming from Abrams as well